Creating new tables from scratch

- Newspaper columns are an excellent way…to create a different look for your documents,…maybe make it a little bit easier to read.…But things are not always going to line up…when you start to add or remove content.…Your content is going to snake down to the bottom…of column one, up to column two and around.…When you need things to line up,…you'll probably want to use a different type of column,…and that is a table.…A table allows you to break up content into columns,…but also into rows that will always line up.…

So as you can see, I've opened up a document here,…at least the beginnings of a document.…It's called LH_prices0802.…You'll find it in the Chapter 8 folder…of your exercise files.…We have a title, Landon Hotel Price List.…Let's just click down below to get our cursor flashing…in the left-hand margin, where we want to create this list.…Well, using a table will allow us to choose…the number of columns, but also to keep things lined up…in as many rows as we need.…And there are a couple of different ways to insert a table.…

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8/5/2016

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12/22/2015

Learn how to create, format, share, and print a wide variety of documents in Word 2016. Author David Rivers covers creating new documents from templates and scratch, formatting text and pages, working with headers and footers, using themes and styles, adding multimedia, and more. He'll also show how to share documents with others and enhance your productivity with macros.